PREMIERE:
Adrian Baschuk’s “Cuba: Waiting for a Revolution” premiered tonight at 10/9c on Current TV. Baschuk, a Vanguard correspondent, reportedly visited Cuba to see “how hard life really is there and investigate whether or not there exists any possibility of regime change.” The thesis: frustration with persistent difficulty and worsening economic prospects in Cuba might just incite a counterrevolution driven by youth.
I do not think the probability of a new revolution in Cuba is very high at all, but I was looking forward to seeing what they would present. Ultimately, I think they were forcing the point. They chose a hypothesis before leaving for Havana and incorporated all evidence into their already established schema, instead of reflecting objectively on the situation on the island as they took it all in.
Still, the piece covers a lot of bases, shows really excellent (not to mention rare) footage, and includes a number of impressive and insightful interviews. It’s worth the 20 minutes it takes to watch, below:
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Evidently Adrian Baschuk’s not familiar with the recent reports from BBC Mundo, the BBC’s Spanish-language service, whose correspondent, Fernando Ravsberg, reported twice in the last two weeks that the Internet restrictions you talk about have been removed.
In light of the concert held at Revolution Plaza a few weeks ago, led by the Colombian singer Juanes, most Cuban-Americans now favor freedom for all from the United States to travel to Cuba, not just Cuban-Americans who are the only ones allowed unfettered access as of now.
This was the Bendixen report discussed in the MIAMI HERALD in recent days.
CubaNews has a translation of these BBC articles and I’d be happy to provide here, but you don’t allow links.
Thanks, Walter, as always.
Links are certainly allowed. Here’s the link to what Walter mentioned to CubaNews’ translated pieces: click here.
And yes, as I’ve mentioned in previous posts, the Internet restrictions that temporarily affected Cubans in tourist hotels have now been lifted. Baschuk certainly missed this and a lot else in his video production. Here is the English translation of the specific article in which Ravsberg mentions the lifted Internet restrictions, an article that I linked to in Spanish in previous posts.
So how do I post links? Thanks for posting mine.
No need to display this, just write to me privately.
Best,
Walter
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